The Seven-Beer Snitch

Frank Gehry as himself, Charles Napier as Officer Krackney and Joe Mantegna as Fat Tony

"The Seven-Beer Snitch" is the fourteenth episode of The Simpsons' sixteenth season. It first aired on the Fox network in the United States on April 3, 2005.

The Simpsons go to Shelbyville to see a musical. The musical paints Shelbyvillians as smart, sophisticated people and Springfielders as hicks and morons. After the play, a furious Lisa declares that Springfield is not nearly as fitting of the Shelbyville stereotype as suggested, and an equally angered Marge goes to Springfield's Cultural Advisory Board to brainstorm a plan to make Springfield more sophisticated. During a free word association, Marge gets the idea to create a concert hall and hire Frank Gehry to build it. Gehry refuses at first, but is soon inspired after he crumples Marge's letter and hurls it to the ground. The $30 million project is eventually finished, but opening night proves to be a bust when everyone in Springfield leaves after hearing the first five notes of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony. Not even the symphony sticks around after Marge tells them about the next performance: an atonal piece by Philip Glass.

At the town meeting the next day, Mayor Quimby realized that the town hated classical music and called the people 'stupid hicks' for not telling him that in the first place. Mr. Burns swoops in with an idea of his own: take over the space and turn it into a state prison. Homer applies for a job as a guard, but is rejected after Otto switches his thoroughly drug-laded urine sample with Homer's and Mr. Burns has a despondent Homer kicked out of the interview room. To make more money off the prison, Mr. Burns forces Chief Wiggum to reinstate old and forgotten laws in order to fill his prison with convicts. Homer becomes one of those convicts after getting caught kicking a can five times down the street (which, according to an old law, is considered illegal transportation of litter).